“I definitely went through a few different phases. I was super emo through most of high school. Wearing all black was my thing. The all-black didn’t fly over too well with a lot of my peers. I wasn’t bullied or made fun of or anything. I definitely got the “Are you emo?” “Why do you wear so much black?” type of response. But I still did it anyway, I didn’t care to be honest. I was like that in high school. I didn’t care enough to stop dressing that way per say, but I still was more conservative than I am now.

“It definitely got to me, I would think about it. I was self-conscious about a million things back then, and that was just one of the many things. I put myself down a lot at that time. Not just for the way I looked or anything, but for the way people always asked “Why are you quiet?” “Why are you so shy?” That’s why I got the emo label, it makes sense I guess. Even the people I grew up with — the girls that I went to high school with that dressed very basic — dress very differently now; more towards an alternative-type style. It’s kind of cool, I can’t really blame them. [In highschool] they were probably just doing what I was trying to do — trying to fit in. It’s a lot more normalized now to dress this way. But it works in my favour, since I’ve always wanted to dress like this and now I can do it and it’s not as weird.”